Protests/rioting
This 1811–1813 movement involved English textile workers destroying machines they believed threatened their jobs.
Who were the Luddites?
Workers join together in these groups to ask for better pay and safer working conditions.
What are Labor Unions?
Passed in 1833, this British law limited children’s working hours in textile factories.
What is the Factory Act of 1833?
This 1830s uprising saw farm laborers attack threshing machines and demand higher wages in the English countryside.
What were the Swing Riots?
This famous U.S. labor union was led by Samuel Gompers and focused on skilled workers.
What is the AFL (American Federation of Labor)
This U.S. government agency, created in 1913, was designed to protect workers by investigating safety and wage issues.
What is the Department of Labor
Miners in Colorado went on strike in 1914; violence broke out after the National Guard fired on a tent colony, killing men, women, and children.
What was the Ludlow Massacre?
This early labor group wanted shorter hours and better conditions for all types of workers and was one of the first big unions in the U.S.
What were the Knights of Labor?
This Progressive-era U.S. law was passed after a lawsuit involving a printing shop; it set a maximum 10-hour workday for women to protect their health.
What is the Oregon law upheld in Muller v. Oregon?
Violent clashes in Pennsylvania in 1892 erupted when steelworkers protested wage cuts and harsh working conditions.
What was the Homestead Strike?
These people are elected by workers to speak to the boss on behalf of the whole group.
What are union leaders
This 1842 British law banned women and children from working underground in dangerous mining conditions.
What is the Mines Act of 1842